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Badly   /bˈædli/   Listen
Badly

adverb
1.
To a severe or serious degree.  Synonyms: gravely, seriously, severely.  "Badly injured" , "A severely impaired heart" , "Is gravely ill" , "Was seriously ill"
2.
('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.  Synonyms: ill, poorly.  "It ill befits a man to betray old friends" , "The car runs badly" , "He performed badly on the exam" , "The team played poorly" , "Ill-fitting clothes" , "An ill-conceived plan"
3.
Evilly or wickedly.  "To steal is to act badly"
4.
In a disobedient or naughty way.  Synonyms: mischievously, naughtily.  "He mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister" , "Behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room"
5.
With great intensity ('bad' is a nonstandard variant for 'badly').  Synonym: bad.  "The buildings were badly shaken" , "It hurts bad" , "We need water bad"
6.
Very much; strongly.  Synonym: bad.  "The cables had sagged badly" , "They were badly in need of help" , "He wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
7.
Without skill or in a displeasing manner.  "I think he paints very badly"
8.
In a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage.  Synonym: disadvantageously.  "Angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"
9.
Unfavorably or with disapproval.  Synonym: ill.  "Thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
10.
With unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display.  "Took her father's death badly" , "Conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"






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"Badly" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the nightwatch are badly informed," grumbled the ostler, pushing the dog into a corner. "I know what it was, for one of the theatrical players is a lady lodger of ours. She was unfairly supplanted by some insignificant young ...
— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas

... not finish the sentence. Instead, his mind began to think tremendously. They were both badly frightened. What was the best thing to be done? At first he thought: "Keep perfectly still, and make no slightest movement; a quiet person is not noticed." But, the next instant, came the truer wisdom: "If anything unusual occurs, go on doing exactly what you were doing before. Hold the ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood

... "Badly!" he said, briefly. "Worn, tired—almost sick. She ought to have absolute rest, mind, body, and soul, and, instead ...
— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards

... to the view of the school with the one most badly defaced, honored George's thoroughness, and sharply reproved the other boy's carelessness. Mr. Hobby sought to arouse dull scholars by encouragement full as much as he did by punishment. Hence, George's neat, attractive writing-book, contrasted ...
— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

... quietly,—"The world is waiting for one! The Alpha Beta of Christianity has been learned and recited more or less badly by the children of men for nearly two thousand years,—the actual grammar and meaning of the whole Language has yet to be deciphered. There have been, and are, what are CALLED Churches,—one especially, which, if it would bravely discard mere vulgar superstition, and accept, absorb, and use ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli


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